Advantages: Calm professional staff, quiet setting Disadvantages: If you can't get it at a bargain rate, it's not worth the price.
I could be sure that - despite the rather reasonable price of around £65 for the night - it would be of a good standard. Japanese tourists don't DO 'slumming it'. I believe it's now no longer part of the Nikko group but I can't entirely confirm that and the new website shows no discernable changes to the hotel where we stayed.
Arrival and Check-in
The night before we'd been with our tour group at the horrible Jaypee Siddarth in the north west of the city. We booked a taxi to take us to the Metropolitan which took about 15 to 20 minutes. I wasn't expecting anything too marvellous but when we arrived we were quite impressed. To put it into context it's nowhere close to the sublime gorgeousness of the Imperial but it beat the pants off the Siddarth. The blast of air conditioned air as we entered the lobby was more than welcome since ...
Advantages: Mazda Factory tour, Centrally located Baseball stadium and sights & incredible Miyajima daytrip. Disadvantages: Expensive of accomodation!
the most useful mode of transport in the city and you will probably want to near that. Anything near the station would be well placed, or in the centre of town. Plucking a name from my Lonely Planet, the Hotel Kokusai looks very well positioned indeed. When my parents came they stayed next to the railway station in the NewHiroden and this was reasonably priced, though certainly not budjet, and also well positioned. The Hiroshima Youth Hostel, as the Lonely Planet points out, is in a rather inconvient location, about 2km north of town. If you could stretch to about 4000 Yen you could get a better hotel nearer the centre of town and probably have a much better time - certainly you'd see more.
For food start at the A-Bomb dome or baseball stadium and head east along the main road and tram line. Any of the streets off to the side of this ...
Hmatt 28.08.2002 (11.09.2002)
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Advantages: Clean, nice rooms - amazing views from roof top balcony Disadvantages: 24 Hour coffee bar was actually a vending machine!!
My lovely husband booked a short stay in New York for my ?surprise? 30th birthday. This was in 2002 and we went there at the beginning of October of that year. Just as a side note before I start the review of the hotel, the weather was fantastic and for much of the time we went out regularly in T-shirts.
Anyway we stayed at The Bentley Hotel for the whole of our stay and overall we were impressed and enjoyed our time there.
**ABOUT THE HOTEL**
The Bentley is a 3 star hotel which was built in 1904 and last renovated in 2002, however I have a feeling some renovation may be going on now as the roof top restaurant has been closed until further notice.
It has 197 rooms in total, which range in quality depending on which sort you book. We had a regular room but found this to be very satisfactory. There was plenty of room from ...
